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" The groves were God's first temples. "

William C. Bryant

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" We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "

" I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. "

" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "

" With the coming of spring, I am calm again. "

" Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? "

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Nature does nothing in vain. "

" Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature. "

" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "

Orison Swett Marden

" There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers. "

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. "

" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

Guillermo del Toro

" The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. "

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

" Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

" If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "

" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

Robert Smithson

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "

Calvin Coolidge

" To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. "